Can you imagine a scenario where an election is conducted in secret, without a shared voter list and no clearly defined method to become a voter? It sounds like a third world dictatorship, but in fact,

At the beginning of the summer, Jim Prentice stood before his assembled campaign volunteers and challenged them to sell 100,000 PC Party memberships.
Yesterday, Prentice admitted giving away free memberships and pledged to give away countless more.

Back in June I commented in this space about how I had dutifully renewed my Alberta PC membership, as I occasionally do with several provincial and federal parties, for the express purpose of casting a ballot in the September leadership vote.

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